Are you a flatterer? Most of us like to compliment our friends, but there's a fine line, isn't there between the compliment and flattery. To see and to say sincere, complimentary things about other people is a gracious custom and makes life more livable for all of us. But as always, just as with money for example, along with the genuine and the good, comes the counterfeit and the bad, and the counterfeit of a sincere compliment is flattery.
As you go forth in life look for the good. See that which is sincerely good and give compliment where compliment is due, but do not attempt to buy peace of mind, social acceptance or business preferment by flattery. It is a false coin and in time will become your master.
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